‘Butterfly bot’ is fastest swimming soft robot yet Scott Marlette Nov 19, 2022 Inspired by the biomechanics of the manta ray, researchers at North Carolina State…
Soft skills: Researchers invent robotic droplet manipulators for hazardous liquid cleanup Scott Marlette Nov 17, 2022 Credit: Colorado State University CSU researchers have…
Autonomous crawling soft ‘ringbots’ can navigate narrow gaps Scott Marlette Nov 15, 2022 (a, b) The ring with equal thickness (t) and height (h) can only snap twice and…
Zapping tiny metal drops with sound creates wires for soft Kevin Colleran Nov 11, 2022 Zapping liquid metal droplets with ultrasound offers a new way to make wiring for stretchy, bendy electronics. The technique, described in the…
En route to human-environment interaction technology with soft microfingers Kevin Colleran Nov 10, 2022 Humans have always been fascinated by scales different than theirs, from giant objects such as stars, planets and galaxies, to the world of the tiny:…
A soft robotic microfinger that enables interaction with insects through tactile sensing Scott Marlette Nov 10, 2022 Microfinger-insect interaction. (a) Schematic drawing of microfinger-insect (pill…
WeTac: A small, soft and ultrathin wireless electrotactile system Scott Marlette Nov 4, 2022 Schematic illustration of the miniaturized wireless electrotactile system. a,…
A hackable, multi-functional, and modular extrusion 3D printer for soft materials Scott Marlette Oct 27, 2022 Complex designs made possible using ‘Printer.HM’. From left, a leaf-shaped scaffold…
Scared of injections? Try a wearable soft robot to ease aversion to needles Scott Marlette Oct 21, 2022 Researchers from the University of Tsukuba measure indicators of stress and fear…
‘Smart plastic’ material is step forward toward soft, flexible robotics and electronics Kevin Colleran Oct 14, 2022 Inspired by living things from trees to shellfish, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin set out to create a plastic much like many life forms…